‘Bout time, honestly. I don’t like cheering for megacorps, but I’ve always had beef with Palworld.
Blacksad9999
I doubt “catching animals” will hold up as a patent.
FrostyMagazine9918
Third topic on this in the last hour. Understandable, it’s huge news.
themudorca
They very clearly waited till the hype died down from the game. There’s nothing you can patent here. Ridiculous waste of time
Kimberly_Martin7818
That’s quite the legal battle! Hope it’s resolved peacefully.
Golden-Owl
Being a Patent lawsuit is surprising.
Copying similar character designs tends to fall under creative property infringement
Patent is typically technology and programming stuff like the sleep timer things in Pokemon Sleep. Not something I expected Palworld to have run afoul of
Very curious about what tech feature did Palworld copy?
virtualpig
They almost certainly don’t have anything about the concept of the game itself. This is most likely based on multiple little things such as “how are the monsters, caught, these things look an awful lot like Pokeballs”. This is why it would have taken so long, because they can’t go after the concept, but how that concept is implemented.
It’s more or less a nuisance lawsuit I think.
Revo_Int92
Fuck Nintendo. They blatantly copied the monster designs of Dragon Quest and mechanics from Megami Tensei and DQ. This Palworld looks disgusting, like a husk with no soul, but they didn’t infringed anything. Nintendo has the monopoly of catching animals/monsters? Go to hell
anthonyg45157
Pretty surprising considering Nintendo usually reacts right away.
My money would be on they were building a massive case and possibly getting eye witness evidence on them and possibly even proof of stealing IP.
I hope not, I love the game and love competition but stealing is stealing so hopefully it’s not that.
I love all the experts in Japanese patent law coming out of the woodwork to say there’s no case here 🤓
ryosan0
It should be noted that this lawsuit is specific to Japan and not Palworld in other countries, excluding nations that respect the authority of a Japanese court and would enforce the ruling of course.
As I understand it, Japan has more stringent patent laws so it makes sense why something might be triggered there legally and not say Europe and the US, though we still don’t know the exact details being sued about.
Note, I’m not a lawyer, and do not pretend to be a lawyer and someone with expertise in international law would likely have better input.
teh1337penguin
But honestly, fuck Nintendo. I don’t know how they had so many avid fans when they treat their consumer base like absolute dog shit.
Mawgu
Pokémon Go To Court!
EvenSpoonier
What took them so long?
No, really, what took them so long? Usually they’re all over fangames in a matter of days. What obscure provision were the Gun Pokemon developers relying on to protect them, ans how did it work so well that Nintendo’s own lawyers needed three-plus years to build a case against the most obvious ripoff since (insert your favorite mon game here)?
McLaren03
This happened a lot later than I thought it would. Them suing isn’t surprising. How long it’s taken for them to do to that is.
imaginary_num6er
*Surprised Pikachu face*
Flush_Man444
This post will conjure up an army of Palworld defenders.
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Surprised it took them this long.
Not sure which side I want to win though.
‘Bout time, honestly. I don’t like cheering for megacorps, but I’ve always had beef with Palworld.
I doubt “catching animals” will hold up as a patent.
Third topic on this in the last hour. Understandable, it’s huge news.
They very clearly waited till the hype died down from the game. There’s nothing you can patent here. Ridiculous waste of time
That’s quite the legal battle! Hope it’s resolved peacefully.
Being a Patent lawsuit is surprising.
Copying similar character designs tends to fall under creative property infringement
Patent is typically technology and programming stuff like the sleep timer things in Pokemon Sleep. Not something I expected Palworld to have run afoul of
Very curious about what tech feature did Palworld copy?
They almost certainly don’t have anything about the concept of the game itself. This is most likely based on multiple little things such as “how are the monsters, caught, these things look an awful lot like Pokeballs”. This is why it would have taken so long, because they can’t go after the concept, but how that concept is implemented.
It’s more or less a nuisance lawsuit I think.
Fuck Nintendo. They blatantly copied the monster designs of Dragon Quest and mechanics from Megami Tensei and DQ. This Palworld looks disgusting, like a husk with no soul, but they didn’t infringed anything. Nintendo has the monopoly of catching animals/monsters? Go to hell
Pretty surprising considering Nintendo usually reacts right away.
My money would be on they were building a massive case and possibly getting eye witness evidence on them and possibly even proof of stealing IP.
I hope not, I love the game and love competition but stealing is stealing so hopefully it’s not that.
Live on Palworld 💜
Unfortunately it seems Pirate Software is once again [eating his words](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDGvLq7ls8s).
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Jealous that pals are prettier pokemons
Wow, they waited awhile.
I love all the experts in Japanese patent law coming out of the woodwork to say there’s no case here 🤓
It should be noted that this lawsuit is specific to Japan and not Palworld in other countries, excluding nations that respect the authority of a Japanese court and would enforce the ruling of course.
As I understand it, Japan has more stringent patent laws so it makes sense why something might be triggered there legally and not say Europe and the US, though we still don’t know the exact details being sued about.
Note, I’m not a lawyer, and do not pretend to be a lawyer and someone with expertise in international law would likely have better input.
But honestly, fuck Nintendo. I don’t know how they had so many avid fans when they treat their consumer base like absolute dog shit.
Pokémon Go To Court!
What took them so long?
No, really, what took them so long? Usually they’re all over fangames in a matter of days. What obscure provision were the Gun Pokemon developers relying on to protect them, ans how did it work so well that Nintendo’s own lawyers needed three-plus years to build a case against the most obvious ripoff since (insert your favorite mon game here)?
This happened a lot later than I thought it would. Them suing isn’t surprising. How long it’s taken for them to do to that is.
*Surprised Pikachu face*
This post will conjure up an army of Palworld defenders.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdOPBP9vuZA)
Nintendo loves lawsuits.
There sure are a lot of bilingual Japanese Patent lawyers on reddit today.